Thursday, June 20, 2024, 6:00 PM, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre •
Bay Area premiere • Queer premiere
not available in the Digital Screening Room streaming encore
🏆 Frameline48 Jury Award: honorable mention, Outstanding First Narrative Feature
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| In the Summers |
After a divorce, two sisters live in California with their mother, but spend the summers in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with their father. Over the course of several years, we watch them grow up. The father, Vicente (played by Puerto Rican rapper Residente), is adoring but tempestuous, with too much of a taste for alcohol, a mercurial temper, and a stubborn streak a mile wide. One of the issues that gradually unfolds over the course of several summers is that one of the sisters, Violeta (Lío Mehiel, pictured right — star of last year’s Mutt, which is now available on Netflix), now identifies as trans masculine.
The story is a bit slow, but overall a good story that benefits from taking its time. There were a couple of issues that I hope got fixed in post: the sound on my screener was a bit muddy, and there were no captions or subtitles at all. I know enough Spanish that I could make out most of the dialogue, but si tu no hablas, you would miss some useful details.
Highly recommended.
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